Sentence examples for grandmama from inspiring English sources

The woman says, "I don't mind, Pu, but you'll have to ask your grandmama or mum first".

"It was created to commemorate the culture itself, so that it could last, so that grandmama could tell grandson, 'This is what we're about, child.' " He looked pained.

Shila Morjaria had travelled from Leicester for the event, and bought a programme for her toddler grandson "so he can say when he is older: 'My grandmama was there.'" Like almost everyone the Guardian spoke to at the event, she was dismissive of the criticisms of Modi's human rights record.

Neither my grandmama, nor my colleagues, are wrong.

"It's really the granddaddy or grandmama of all of them," said Wayne Martin, the folklife director at the North Carolina Arts Council.

Playful grandmama to Ryan and Brooke.

"My family used to move around as a whole, from my great-grandmama all the way to my little second cousins," Micalizzi told me.

"Mama, I Want to Sing" may be showing its age, but the mamas, papas and grandmamas in the audience, many of whom grew up with this slight yet sturdy piece of entertainment, clearly want to hear some more.

Well, it seems their next step is to become co-grandmamas.

It was as if a bunch of errant schoolgirls were let loose in the attic of an English country house, to spend a rainy afternoon dressing up in Mum's old Chanel suits and Dad's Kiss boots, and even Great-Grandmama's flapper dresses.

Truly, our grandchildren will one day crawl on to our laps and whisper, eyes open wide with elfin amazement: "Was it true you lived through the great Beyoncé haircut, grandmama/papa?" And we will smile down at them, a twinkle in our octogenarian eyes, and say: "Indeed I did, little one.